No. 1 DSLR maker (it's not Canon)

quilmore

http://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/nikon-snaps-up-dslr-number-one-spot-489831?src=rss&attr=news

they've probably cooked the books this time with that 333% but have to admit some new cameras have regain territory over canon's dominance

Fajitas!

Meh, this has been going on for years. Canon gets to the top of the market, Nikon kicks them off, Canon waits a bit, and kicks Nikon off again. Repeat to infinity - It's nothing new, and in fairness, Canon have been top of the game for the last few years of consumer availible digitial SLR's.

Dragan

Fajitas! wrote: »

Meh, this has been going on for years. Canon gets to the top of the market, Nikon kicks them off, Canon waits a bit, and kicks Nikon off again. Repeat to infinity - It's nothing new, and in fairness, Canon have been top of the game for the last few years of consumer availible digitial SLR's.

The power of Marketing is an amazing thing.

minikin

lies, damn lies and statistics...
note how they don't say worldwide sales

Here are some stats from an independent japanese auditor:

Mizuho Securities Equity Research, Tokyo, issued an 8-pages sector outlook report on Precision Instruments today.

The report includes an extensive breakdown of the camera industry, including the researchers estimates on market shares and operating profit for the three months April-June 2008 (1st quarter) regarding the four leading manufacturers of DSLRs.

These figures seem to indicate that:

* Canon has regained a clear leadership in DSLRs with a market share well above 40 per cent and a very strong profit.

* Sony is now a clear #3 in DSLRs with a market share in the region of 12 per cent, more than doubling #4, Olympus.

* Sony's big step forward is costly, since Sony is taking an operating loss of no less than 16.7 per cent in the DSLR business. Olympus is losing money from DSLRs too, however much less but making no inroads either.

Please note that these estimates are from an independent researcher, your view might be different.

Key figures regarding DSLRs only (April-June 2008):
DSLR units/operating profit margin

> Canon 1,050,000/23.2
> Nikon 820,000/19.1
> Sony 330,000/-16,7
> Olympus 150,000/-6.7

melekalikimaka

Fajitas! wrote: »

Canon waits a bit, and kicks Nikon off again.

what ever helps ya sleep at night Al

Beano

Now maybe i'm not reading this right but at the top it says

Nikon has announced that it is now the UK's leading manufacturer of DSLRs.

At the bottom it has a headline

Nikon beating Canon

and after that it says

The fight in the DSLR market between Canon and Nikon has always been a close one, with last year's figures suggesting that Canon won the camera war by just one per cent – taking a 41 per cent market share to Nikon's 40 per cent.

does not compute.

Calina

is it all a football match or do any of you go out and take photographs without thinking "my camera's manufacturer is winning the economic war" at any stage at all?

I shot Olympus for a long time. Their lens were the best I ever used. Now I use Canon.

at the end of the day, the person making the photo is me. Not the marketing guys whipping up a tribal warfare between users.

CabanSail

Yawn.

Phototoxin

hang on, yer forgetting one small detail

Nikon has announced that it is now the UK's leading manufacturer of DSLRs.

its called bias =p

Calina

I think I'll lock this. I can't see that it's going to be any more constructive than it already isn't.